Portugal 2009 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Party won 8 of 22 seats with 34.0% of the vote; 36.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.8 points on 2004.
- Portugal
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democratic Party | 8 | −1 | 34.0 | −0.7 | 1,131,744 |
| Socialist Party | 7 | −5 | 28.4 | −17.9 | 946,818 |
| Left Bloc | 3 | +2 | 11.5 | +6.4 | 382,667 |
| Unitary Democratic Coalitionwith Ecology Party -- Greens and Democratic Intervention | 0 | −2 | 11.4 | +1.9 | 379,787 |
| CDS – People's Party | 2 | 8.9 | 298,423 | ||
| Hope for Portugal Movement | 0 | 1.6 | 55,072 | ||
| Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | +0.2 | 42,940 |
| Portuguese Communist Party | 2 |
± is the change against the Portugal 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democratic Party 1,131,744
- Socialist Party 946,818
- Left Bloc 382,667
- Unitary Democratic Coalition 379,787
- CDS – People's Party 298,423
- Hope for Portugal Movement 55,072
- Portuguese Workers' Communist Party 42,940
- Portuguese Communist Party
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
36.8% of the 9,704,559 registered voters cast a ballot (3,568,943 ballots), down 1.8 points on 2004. 3,333,195 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1994 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democratic Party34.0% of votes36.4% of seats
- Socialist Party28.4% of votes31.8% of seats
- Left Bloc11.5% of votes13.6% of seats
- CDS – People's Party8.9% of votes9.1% of seats
- Unitary Democratic Coalition11.4% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Social Democratic Party led Socialist Party by 5.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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